GeoGuessr
This website has become quite popular for the past few years with many Twitch streamers playing along with it and even making competitions out of it. This website hosts an automated version of the Google Maps game. The way this website works it throws you in the middle of nowhere somewhere on planet Earth and gives you a limited amount of time to search your surroundings to figure out where you are. What you must do then is place a pin on the map of the world and hope that you’re closer to your location than your friend or opponent.
Duolingo
Sometimes when you’re bored what you need is to stimulate your brain and what better way to do this than by learning another language? This website is one of the most popular if not the most popular platforms on which you can learn pretty much any language available on the planet. If you’re a nerd, you might even be able to learn Klingon as well as Dothraki from Game of Thrones. One of the great things about this website is that you can schedule it to have daily lessons that you can follow both on your desktop and your phone. Wasting time will have never been as education now.
Moemate
Have you ever wanted to chat with a fictional character? Now you have the opportunity to be thanks to artificial intelligence technologies. Moemate lets you talk with AI characters which will answer organically to your questions and try to emulate a normal human conversation with you. Trying to find ways to either break or make conversations with the algorithms can be a lot of fun and extremely addicting so if you’re planning to spend some time to get rid of your boredom this is a great website to use for this purpose.
2048
If you’ve been on the Internet for a while, you might recognize this game as something extremely popular in the early 2010s. This extremely addictive puzzle game is a mix of Tetris and mathematics that can be much more challenging than it first seems. If you look on the App Store you might find a dozen of copycats of this website which was extremely popular when many millennials were selling high school. This game will turn hours into seconds as you spend your time trying to figure out how to reach the dreaded number of 2048.
Cookie Clicker
This is a bit of an odd game that has been seeing a lot of popularity off and on for the past few years. This is one of the very first games to start a trend of what many people call idle games. The idea of a cookie clicker is very simple every time you click the cookie you get a cookie. Then after a few clicks, you’re able to create cookie generators that create more cookies for you without having to click. What starts like a fun little clicking game ends up being a massive cookie industry simulator where you will have to be content with even aliens.
Gartic Phone
If you’re somebody who loves playing Pictionary this might be the right game for you. Not only is it a very quick and very addictive game but it can also allow you to play with friends all around the world or even random people if you want. Gartic phone is a telephone game where you have to draw things based on what others are drawing. It is not only a great time to express your creativity but also definitely a great time to laugh.
Infinite Craft
This website hosts a game that allows you to invent everything. Powered by AI learning this video game allows you to combine concepts to create new things. You start with the basic elements of earth wind water and fire and can go from there to create anything. You will start by combining elements like fire and water to create steam and in the end create things like Batman or the International Space Station. This website is extremely addictive as many people are trying to be the very first to discover something and see what other people have discovered before them.
Find the Invisible Cow
This website does exactly what the title promises. It is a hide-and-seek game between you and an invisible animal present on a web page. There are many levels which means that as you drag your cursor around and try to find the sound of the animal, you’re looking for you will eventually see that a lot of time can pass when you’re having fun. This game can seem silly at first, but it gets quite challenging as the levels go up. If you need something silly and somewhat useless to just spend the time and get rid of your chronic boredom this is up there as the perfect tool for it.